Marcus Aurelius Quotes - Page 17

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• For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within him such thoughts that by looking into them he is immediately in perfect tranquility; and I affirm that tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Peace, Men, Perfect

  Meditations IV.3

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• Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go.

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  Arrogance, Let It Go, Wealth

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.57, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Consider how many do not even know your name, and how many will soon forget it, and how those who now praise you will presently blame you.

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  Names, Blame, Forget

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• An angry look on the face is wholly against nature. If it be assumed frequently, beauty begins to perish, and in the end is quenched beyond rekindling.

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  Beauty, Nature, Looks

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• Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, and unassuming; the friend of justice and godliness; kindly, affectionate, and resolute in your devotion to duty.

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  Simple, Justice, Serious

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• When men hate or blame you, or say hurtful things about you, look deeply into their hearts and see what kind of men they are. You'll see how unnecessary it is to strain after their good opinion. Yet you must still think kindly of them. they are your neighbors. The gods help them as they do you, by dreams and oracles, to win their hearts' desires.

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  Dream, Hate, Heart

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• It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.

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  Pain, Giving, Fit

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.48, Lulu.com

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• Since it is possible that thou mayest depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly. But to go away from among men, if there are gods, is not a thing to be afraid of, for the gods will not involve thee in evil; but if indeed they do not exist, or if they have no concern about human affairs, what is it to me to live in a universe devoid of gods or devoid of Providence? But Gods there are, undoubtedly, and they regard human affairs; and have put it wholly in our power, that we should not fall into what is truly evil.

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  Fall, Men, Evil

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book II,

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• All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.

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  Patience, Men, Tolerance

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations (Diversion Classics)”, p.165, Diversion Books

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• Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.

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  Path, Fulfilled, Living Organisms

  Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.119, Penguin UK

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• Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.

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  Plato, Achievement, Republic

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1963). “The Meditations”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

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• A man should always have these two rules in readiness. First, to do only what the reason of your ruling and legislating faculties suggest for the service of man. Second, to change your opinion whenever anyone at hand sets you right and unsettles you in an opinion, but this change of opinion should come only because you are persuaded that something is just or to the public advantage, not because it appears pleasant or increases your reputation.

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  Men, Hands, Two

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• You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.

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  Men, Rejection, Mind

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• We are born for cooperation, as are the feet, the hands, the eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws.

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  Hands, Feet, Cooperation

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• You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you. Things can't shape our decisions by themselves.

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  Decision, Upset, Shapes

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.81, Modern Library

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• The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

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  Inspirational, Revenge, Hatred

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• Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.

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  Inspirational, Goes On, Good Person

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• Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.

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  Gratitude, Quality, Looks

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book VI, (3), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• Reverence the gods, and help men. Short is life.

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  Men, Helping, Help Me

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.40, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Men exist for the sake of one another.

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  Philosophical, Men, Sake

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.95, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance revert at once to yourself and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help. You'll have a better grasp of harmony if you keep going back to it.

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  Adversity, Helping, Harmony

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.70, Modern Library

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• To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.

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  School, Home, Advice

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• Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything which needs walls and curtains.

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  Wall, Hate, Hypocrite

  馬可•奧里略 (Marcus Aurelius) (2014). “沉思錄:讀了一百年還要再讀一百年的不朽鉅著”, p.67, 德威國際文化

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• Every instant of time... is a pinprick of eternity.

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  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Marcus Aurelius (2009). “Meditations”, p.40, Everyman's Library

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• Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature.

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  Life, Future, Stories

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